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Jun-Dai
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#51 Post by Jun-Dai » Fri Mar 11, 2005 9:22 pm

chaddoli wrote:PS: Are we ever going to send these in?
That was never part of the plan, but you may.
J wrote:Also Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is scheduled for release by Image Ent. on 3/22.
. . .
Duck Soup <- already out
I'm not invalidating Image titles, because I'm not certain that there isn't some sort of connection wherein Criterion could potentially get the film, if they wanted it badly enough. Also, Duck Soup is a pretty minimal release from Universal, which I figure means Criterion might be able to negotiate it if (again) they really wanted to.
dx23 wrote:I forgot to add to my list. . .
Well, you've already put in seven, and the format only includes five, so unless you wanted to displace on of your top five picks, it wouldn't get counted anyhow.

Also, rather than deleting the old posts in this thread, I'm moving them to the other, locked recommendations thread, which is here:
viewtopic.php?t=628

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#52 Post by Steven H » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:56 am

I'd like to change mine (I recently changed my name from harri to steven h).

1. Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo boshoku, "Tokyo Twilight" (through Shochiku)
2. Robert Enrico's Les Aventuriers, "The Last Adventure" (through Universal)
3. Robert Bresson's Quatre nuits d'un reveur, "Four Nights of a Dreamer" (rights???)
4. Jaques Rivette box set (L'amour Fou, Pont Du Nord, Out 1, Duelle, etc)
5. Shohei Immamura's A Man Vanishes (Toho?)

None of these are available on DVD with english subtitles anywhere on the planet (that I know of...) yet. I couldn't decide between Une Femme Douce and Quatre nuits, so I just went with the one I enjoyed slightly more (I'm talking about a miniscule amount).

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#53 Post by chaddoli » Sat Mar 12, 2005 1:41 am

DrGerbil wrote:Spanking the Monkey (1994) Dir. David O. Russell
http://imdb.com/title/tt0111252/
Great one! I love that film and sent it in as a title suggestion a while ago.

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#54 Post by mmiesner » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:40 pm

OK, five titles per person? Here goes:

Europa (Lars von Trier)
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
Il Deserto Rosso (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
Peter Greenaway set (All short films and 'The Falls')

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#55 Post by zedz » Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:12 pm

mmiesner wrote:OK, five titles per person? Here goes:

Europa (Lars von Trier)
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel)
Il Deserto Rosso (Michaelangelo Antonioni)
Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais)
Peter Greenaway set (All short films and 'The Falls')
The latter are already available in good UK editions. Do you want to roll again?

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#56 Post by pzman84 » Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:35 pm

Some Neorealism- Open City, The Bicycle Thieves
Some New Wave (other than Godard)- Shoot the Piano Player, Last Year at Marienbad
Some Godard- Breathless, My Life to Live, Weekend
Some Parajanov- Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
Some Bertolucci- Il Conformista, 1900
Some 1930s Chinese New Wave- The Goddess, The Big Road
Some 1970s New Hollywood- Reds
Oh and that Eisenstein Box Set (Strike, Battleship Potemkin, Oktyabr) we keep hearing about

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#57 Post by Cinephrenic » Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:44 pm

Suna no onna?
Why don't you just rename it to Woman of the Dunes which is better known.

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#58 Post by DrGerbil » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:39 pm

pzman84 wrote:Some Neorealism- Open City, The Bicycle Thieves
Some New Wave (other than Godard)- Shoot the Piano Player, Last Year at Marienbad
Some Godard- Breathless, My Life to Live, Weekend
Some Bertolucci- Il Conformista
Eisenstein Box Set (Strike, Battleship Potemkin, Oktyabr)
The Godard and Bertolucci films are very high on my list, along with Potemkin.

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#59 Post by Buttery Jeb » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:39 am

Jun-Dai, can you remove "Office Space" from my picks, now that it seems definite that Fox will release it themselves?

If it's not too much trouble, I'd like to substitute back-up Fox license "The Ice Storm" in its place. See if that works out as well.

-BJ

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#60 Post by mmiesner » Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:02 pm

I'm guessing you are referring to 'Marienbad' and the Greenaways... the Marienbad NO! I want a good US version of that so I can loan it to my less DVD obsessed friends. And because I seriously cannot think of another film I would rather see on a Criterion than that.
The Greenaway set I'll give you, I was more just thinking how nice it would be to see his name on a Criterion set, but the ones unavailable in the US right now are generally not that good... so how about we substitute it with 'The Virgin Spring'?
Also, maybe this is off topic but I'm new here. How available is 'Lost Highway' to Criterion in reality? I mean, I would love to see that on a good DVD, but I would be surprised if it got licensed to Criterion. Am I way off base here?
Thanks dudes

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#61 Post by zedz » Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:10 pm

Just the Greenaways. I completely agree about Marienbad. Actually there should be a special category for major films inexplicably unavailable in decent English-subtitled editions, and the Resnais would be near the top.

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#62 Post by batiar » Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:09 am

Tchao Pantin Claude Berri 1983
L'Ete Meurtrier Jean Becker 1983

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